June 11th 2002 - one of the best inspirng article I have ever read.

> >INTERESTING..
> >
> >IN 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record
> >audition
> >
> >for the executives of the Decca recording Company. The executives
> >were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one
> >executive
> >
> >said, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way
> >out."
> >
> >The group was called The Beatles.
> >
> >*****
> >
> >In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling
> >Agency, told modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn
> >secretarial
> >
> >work or else get married." She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.
> >
> >*****
> >
> >In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singer
> >after one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere....son.
> >You ought
> >
> >to go back to drivin' a truck. "He went on to become the most popular
> >singer in America named Elvis Presley.
> >
> >*****
> >When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not
> >ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a
> >demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an
> >amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"
> >
> >*****
> >
> >When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000
> >experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him
> >how
> >it felt to fail so many times He said, "I never failed once. I
> >invented
> >thelight bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."
> >
> >******
> >
> >In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took
> >his
> >idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the
> >country.
> >They all turned him down. In 1947 - after seven long years of
> >rejections!
> >He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the
> >Haloid
> >company, to purchase the rights to his invention an electrostatic
> >paper-
> >
> >copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.
> >
> >******
> >
> >Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born
> >prematurely
> >and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she
> >contacted
> >double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a
> >paralysed left
> >
> >leg.
> >At age 9 she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent
> >on and
> >began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic
> >walk, which
> >
> >doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become
> >a
> >runner.
> >She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every
> >race
> >she entered, she came in last Everyone told her to quit, but she
> >kept on
> >
> >running.
> >One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on
> >she won
> >every race she entered. Eventually this little girl, who was told
> >she
> >would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold
> >medals.
> >
> >*****
> >
> >The Moral of the above Stories: Character cannot be developed in
> >ease
> >and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can
> >the soul
> >be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success
> >achieved.
> >
> >
> >You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience
> >where
> >you really stop to look fear in the face....
> >
> >You must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest
> >steel gets
> >
> >sent through the hottest furnace.
> >A winner is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS!
> >In LIFE, remember that you pass this way only once !
> >Let's live life to the fullest and give it our extreme best..
> >Have a
> >blissful life..
> >